"This book explains why the European Union member states - in response to the Euro crisis - agreed to establish banking union, despite previous objections, and why they chose its hybrid institutional design. Analysing its establishment from 2012 to 2020, the book offers a comprehensive view of...

Introduction: institutionalizing financial stability in Europe -- Realist institutionalism: power, institutions and international order -- The TSCG and EMU reform establishing responsible sovereignty -- The ESM: stabilising the Eurozone without a fiscal union -- The SSM: supervising Europe's...

"This book offers comprehensive coverage of various aspects of financial accountability around the EU budget - how it is spent via policies, how institutions engage in checking policy performance (what taxpayers' money actually delivers), and therein, the issues of monitoring, controlling,...

Introduction: the energy policy of the EU and its external dimension -- Conceptualizing the Commission behaviour -- When the Commission asks too much: the legislative process leading to decision 994/2012 on Intergovernmental Agreements in the Field of Energy -- Unbundling the internal market in...

Introduction -- European integration theory and the EU's new international investment policy -- An introduction to international investment and its regime -- An overview of EU international investment policy-making under the Treaty of Lisbon -- The EU in investment-related negotiations during...

Introduction: institutionalizing financial stability in Europe -- Realist institutionalism: power, institutions and international order -- The TSCG and EMU reform establishing responsible sovereignty -- The ESM: stabilising the Eurozone without a fiscal union -- The SSM: supervising Europe's...